Still at the beginner level... this is going to take a while...
Pronouncing the letters C and G in Italian is kinda different from English but pretty easy get the hang of. Now, I just have to work on my accent which --I believe-- is getting pretty good. The thing is, I'm taking Italian courses online. Which means, that my accent is going to be a little different from the people who actually come from Italia(see what I did there?) I probably won't be able to say certain words the right way, but that's understood, I'm just hoping I'll get better.
So my next lesson is going to be names of drinks and how to order when at a bar, then I'm going to start working on regular verbs and singular and plural forms. This is French class all over again... except I'm actually enjoying it. Probably cause I love it when my computers robot voice talks, trying to teach me how to pronounce certain words --but no, I'm really having fun with this and I'm hoping I'll get really good, really fast. That's not gonna happen is it?
So today is supposed to be the last day of my journey, but it's not. I'm gonna keep going with my Italian courses and keep learning because we all know that two weeks to learn a language is not enough. I just barely learned the basics in these two weeks. But I still consider that to be a lot. Of course, along the way, there are things that I forgot and certain words that I will forget. After all, I can't remember everything. Learning takes time, patience, dedication and determination. I guess that to continue learning italian I'll have to work on my patience... It takes a whole lot of it to not get frustrated and just throw your computer across the room... Trust me, I almost did it a couple of times when I did the lesson with verbs. But it was expensive so I had to contain myself. But there were those moments when when I completely aced something and I felt like dancing around my room(I did) and singing at the top of my lungs(I did). Then the moments at the end where I see how many points I got and feel proud of myself for scoring so high. Italian is an easy language to pick up, mostly because of some words that I already know from being around Italians most my life. But I also feel like it's a language really close to the ones that I already speak which is what makes it easy to pick up. Through this learning process, I've learned that I REALLY need to be more patient and take my time with things, and that some things just can't be rushed because if they are, then you're not really accomplishing anything. So, I'm going to keep learning, and keep getting better.
